Shimer College Quotes

#1. Even before I had had time to really think things through, I realized we must not forget. If all of us forgot, the same thing might happen again, in 20 or 50 or 100 years.

Simon Wiesenthal

#2. The Katy Perry stuff, those are great songs.

John Oates

#3. [On Time] Men trifle with the most precious thing in the world; but they are blind to it because it is an incorporeal thing, because it does not come beneath the sight of the eyes, and for this reason it is counted a very cheap thing - nay, of almost no value at all.

Seneca.

#4. Get out of my brain!

Melissa A. Craven

#5. My dream was to be known as a writer and to be able to produce at least one book that would be read by people. That dream came true with the publication of my first novel - and all the rest has been a sweet bonus.

Robert Cormier

#6. A real writer can be recognized by the fact he doesn't find words. Therefore he must search for them and while doing that, he finds better ones.

Paul Valery

#7. Here is he laid to whom for daring deed, nor friend nor foe could render worthy meed.

Quintus Ennius

#8. - I want to atone -
He couldn't of course. Nothing he did now could atone fully for what he had done. But he could do one thing. Just one thing.

Stephen Lloyd Jones

#9. Mystery is the art of eliciting unseen things hidden in the shadow of natural ones ... and serving to demonstrate as real the things that are not.

Cennino Cennini

#10. Be very attentive towards the child's evolving World of Senses that needs Stability, Routine, & Structure, World of Emotions that needs Love, Freedom & Creativity and World of Thoughts that needs Discrimination as an Ability to choose Right Thinking, Emotions, Behaviour.

Natasa Nuit Pantovic

#11. I have gone into yesterday and tomorrow and both were as real as today
which is like the dreams of ghosts!

Robert E. Howard

#12. Faith is where they learn about their God; but Prayer is where they explore Him.

Geoffrey Wood

#13. Photography is the most transparent of the art mediums devised or discovered by man. It is probably for this reason that it proves so difficult to make the photograph transcend its almost inevitable function as document and act as a work of art as well.

Clement Greenberg

#14. Amy would never shoot anyone, least of all Sam. She'd never even held a gun before. This wasn't America.

M.J. Arlidge

#15. At Shimer we paid no attention to disciplinary boundaries; we blithely followed problems wherever they led. For better or for worse, I've never been able to shake this approach.

Alan Dowty